Hose-rack.



No..741,922. PATENTBD 00T. 20.1903.

J. I'. MULDOON. HOSE RACK.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 19I 1903.

NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES- Patented October 20, 1903.

JOI-IN F. MULDOON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Hose-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,922, dated October 20, 1903.

A Application filed January 19, 1903. Serial No. 1391514. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. MULDooN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident'of Boston, in the county of'Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hose-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to wireware, andl particularly to hose-racks made of wire, andhas for its object to provide a rigid light wire rack for holding a hose adapted to be hung upon a wall.

My improved hose-rack comprises a frame made of Wire bent to form a shelf and a wallengaging-part and comprising also a cross-tie fastened at its ends to the frame near the junction of the shelf and wall-engaging part.

In what I considerthe best form of my invention and as herein shown the frame is made of a single piece of wire and the crosstie is another piece of wire bent to form loops adapted to. engage the nails, hooks, or the like by which the rack is supported. Preferably also the front part of the frame and the cross-tie are connected by short bars of wire, which add to the rigidity of the structure.

Other features of myinvention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of my invention, Figure l is a perspective of a hose-rack, showing the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the hose-rack shown in Figl.

As shown in the drawings, my improved hose-rack is made from ve pieces of wire and comprises a main frame made from the largest piece of wire A, which is bent to form a shelf a, and a wall-engaging part a', and the ends of the wire A are hooked and interlocked, as at a2. At the junction of the shelf a and the wall-engaging part a' is a cross-tie B, whose ends are hooked around the wire A. This cross-tie B is formed-with loops or bights b for engaging the nails, hooks, or the like on which the rack is hung.

Short bars C are provided, each of which is hooked at one end around cross-tie B and at its other end around the front bar of the shelf A.

After the parts have been made and assembled as above described the whole structure is galvanized, and this solders alljoints, and a very light, strong, and rigid structure is thus produced.

Ordinarily ahose when stored away is rolled up in. a coil, which is not only the most convenient form for handling, but prevents the hose becoming misshapen through its getting set in a distorted shape, and for this reason I prefer tormake the cross-tie B and the front bar a3 of the shelf a arched and parallel, as shown in Fig. l, so that the shelf will be arched tofit the coil of hose indicated at D.

Advantages of lightness and movability are supplemented by the skeleton form, which lets the'wet hose dry quickly.

What I claim isl. As a new article of manufacture, a portable hose-rack comprising a marginal frame made from a single piece of wire bent into aA rectangular 4form and joined at its ends, said frame being further bent so as to constitute a shelf and a perpendicular wall-engaging part, and a cross-bar of wire rigidly fastened at its ends to the sides of the frame near the junction of the shelf and the wall-engaging part.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a portfor engaging a support; and a number ofshort bars parallel with the sides of said frame each rigidly fastened at one end to the front of the frame and at its rear end to the firstmentioned cross-bar.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 17th day of January, 1903.

JOHN F. MULDOON.

Witnesses: l

ARTHUR F. RANDALL, JOSEPH T. BRENNAN. 

